Babbitt’s ‘monument tour’ led to some legislative solutions
Oakley Brooks
Posted inOctober 23, 2000: Stalking Slade
Mudfest debacle muddies off-roaders’ future
COLORADO Boulder, Colo., disc jockeys “Willie B” and “D Mack” were just looking for a good time when they invited KBPI listeners to join them with four-wheel drive vehicles at Caribou Flats, west of Boulder, on Sept. 23. But by the end of “Mudfest,” their unofficial gathering, 200 off-road vehicles had driven through a 25-acre […]
Posted inOctober 23, 2000: Stalking Slade
The power of vision and memory
Messages from Frank’s Landing: A Story of Salmon, Treaties, and the Indian Way, by Charles Wilkinson. Illustrated with maps by Diane Sylvain and black-and-white photographs. University of Washington Press, 2000. Hardcover: $22.50. 128 pages. The dust has long settled from the Northwest’s fishing wars of the late 1960s and ’70s – wars which set Indian […]
Posted inOctober 9, 2000: The hunters and the hunted
Another legacy of drought
WYOMING Yet another effect of this summer’s drought has reared its ugly head in Wyoming: An unusually high number of cattle in the Cowboy State contracted deadly sulfate-induced polio in the summer months. Merl Raisbeck of the University of Wyoming Veterinary Lab says that in an ordinary year he sees one or two polio cases […]
Posted inOctober 9, 2000: The hunters and the hunted
The Black Hills won’t log everything
SOUTH DAKOTA The Black Hills National Forest, which straddles the Wyoming-South Dakota border, has always been a friend of the timber industry. Since the first commercial timber contract in the country was secured there in 1898, the industry has logged 97 percent of the 2 million-acre ponderosa pine forest and carved 8,000 miles of road. […]
Posted inOctober 9, 2000: The hunters and the hunted
Will Western skies be clear enough?
COLORADO PLATEAU A coalition of 12 Western states and 10 Indian tribes has a plan to clean the air over the Colorado Plateau. But critics think the Western Regional Air Partnership’s plan is too soft. The agreement, now before the Environmental Protection Agency, would bring Western states into compliance with the Clean Air Act, which […]
Posted inSeptember 25, 2000: Backyard boom
Red-legged frog habitat slated for protection
The red-legged frog was once common throughout California, but development has devastated its habitat and reduced the species to three viable breeding populations. Now, the amphibian may get the protection it needs to survive. On Sept. 8, under pressure from a federal court order, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service designated 5.4 million acres in […]